By design, the descent and landing of the one-ton mobile robot laboratory, scheduled to occur at approximately 1:31 a.m.

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The first plan is to create a mobile robot.

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The project integrates a mobile assistive robot (Hector) that can work collaboratively with a smart home and remote control center to better support older people living at home.

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Projects like Arbreole, intelligent lights that react to your movements powered by an Android phone, OpenVibe, a brain to computer interface allowing you to control a video game, Evolving Cities, an open digital platform designed to help create resilient neighborhoods, and SAMI, an innovative multi-function, mobile semi-humanoid robot created by the CRIIF, all received funding from Cap Digital but were also chosen for their potential to be commercialized.

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Their big goal of landing Curiosity a robot, housing a mobile science lab was finally achieved.

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Once docked, the robot gains the sensing and musical generation capabilities of the user's mobile device.

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